Teacher Guide

Brave New World Lesson Plan

Core Standards

Teaching Guide - Core Standards

9 - 10

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

Lenina desperately wants to have sex with John. It is the only thing she knows how to do with a man. Fanny tells Lenina she must either forget about John and sleep with other men or take the initiative and go directly to John's room.